Chapter 73

Listen, I need a recommendation vote.

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“What!?” Lin Jie was greatly alarmed: “Why? Mr. Liu, what happened?”

“It’s nothing, it’s just a personal matter.” Sensing Lin Jie’s genuine concern and anxiety, Liu Menglong smiled slightly and gently patted her head: “I’m an adult, I have to face all kinds of pressures. Being a student is much better; you don’t have to think about anything, just focus on studying.”

“That’s not true! Being a student is also very tiring.” Lin Jie muttered, feeling a bit inexplicably sad.

At this moment, the class bell rang, and Liu Menglong nudged her: “Go line up! We’ll play basketball later.”

Lin Jie went to line up with her classmates, waiting for Liu Menglong’s instructions.

Unlike Class 2-1, in this class, Class 2-3, Liu Menglong did not teach them the Baguazhang. Wasn’t the ground already groaning?

“Students, are you all tired from the first three classes?” Liu Menglong asked with a smile.

“So tired!”

“Completely exhausted.”

“Really miss the summer days!”

“I’m hungry.”

A bunch of rambunctious boys and girls started to complain. After a year of interacting with Liu Menglong, they understood his temperament and personality. He was more like a big brother who could play with them rather than a teacher, which was one of the reasons why students liked Liu Menglong.

Liu Menglong pressed his hands down: “Alright, I know you all are very hardworking, but it can’t be helped. Who made you the age to study! But I understand you, so we won’t do anything much in this class. Just move around a bit. Those who want to play soccer can play soccer, those who want to play basketball can play basketball, and those who don’t want to do anything can just watch and cheer for the others.”

“Long live Mr. Liu!”

“Mr. Liu is awesome!”

“Mr. Liu is cool!”

“Mr. Liu has small breasts!”

“Mr. Liu is **!”

The first few comments were still okay, but the later ones became increasingly inappropriate. Liu Menglong laughed and scolded: “Whoever says nonsense again, run two laps around the playground.”

The students immediately scattered with laughter, some playing soccer on the green field, others going to the basketball court. As agreed, Liu Menglong and Lin Jie also joined in to play basketball.

The campus is the stage of youth, where young men and women sweat and laugh loudly. The campus is beautiful and unforgettable, but it is also challenging. With the current examination-oriented education system in China, at least nine out of ten students dislike school, even those who are good at studying. There are many who do not like studying.

Learning should start from interests and hobbies, and then gradually impart knowledge to students. If you make someone do something they hate, it will only be half as effective.

Liu Menglong deeply understood the students' pain. As a physical education teacher, he did not have to be responsible for their scores. Therefore, during physical education classes, he always tried to make the students have fun. As for some necessary tests, he would try to write lower scores to make the school notice the physical deficiencies of the students, thus paying more attention to physical education classes to avoid raising a bunch of weaklings.

Of course, Liu Menglong's efforts did not yield any results. The school still did not take physical education classes seriously. Whether it was the high school entrance examination or the college entrance examination, physical education was never included in the test scope. To change this situation, physical education would have to become a standard test subject, and the score must be high. If the score was too low, those weak geniuses would not care; they could make up for it with scores from other subjects.

But in the past, Liu Menglong still cared about these issues, but now he doesn’t need to. The only thing he wants to do now is to spend the last bit of time happily with his students.

“Pass the ball!”

Receiving the basketball, Liu Menglong turned, feinted, broke through, and dunked!

“Wow! Mr. Liu is so cool!” The girls on the sidelines screamed for Liu Menglong.

With his tall figure, handsome face, and big brother-like care, Liu Menglong's popularity among the girls in the school has always been high. Almost 90% of the girls in the school consider Liu Menglong their ideal prince charming, and at midnight, they have washed countless pairs of underwear...

In basketball, although there are many students in the school who are good at basketball, none of them can match Liu Menglong. As for football... Liu Menglong is an excellent goalkeeper. All forwards turn into the Chinese national team when they face him, saying they won't shoot, and even if they do, it's just a miss...

Seeing Liu Menglong score a stylish goal, Lin Jie huffed and shouted to the baseline player: “Pass me the ball!”

The baseline player immediately passed the ball to her. Receiving the ball, Lin Jie dribbled quickly towards the front court, but Liu Menglong was faster. He caught up just past the midline, blocking her with a calm smile: “Come on, try to shoot in front of me.”

“Do you think I’m stupid? Shoot?” Lin Jie pouted and skillfully did a few crossovers, constantly feinting, but Liu Menglong was not fooled. He still lifted his hand a step away from her, ready to steal or block at any time.

After playing basketball with Liu Menglong for a year, Lin Jie had learned many techniques. Seeing Liu Menglong's tight defense, Lin Jie feinted a shot, causing Liu Menglong to shift his center of gravity slightly. Lin Jie immediately dribbled and broke through. Liu Menglong quickly recovered his center of gravity and quickly followed Lin Jie. When Lin Jie approached the basket, he spread his hands, and his 1.88-meter height and over 1.9-meter arm span directly covered the 1.67-meter Lin Jie.

What a good Lin Jie! She immediately dribbled and turned, heading to the other side of the basket. Liu Menglong had just taken a step to chase her, but Lin Jie suddenly turned back and made a low-hand layup...

Slap—

A merciless block appeared, and the girls on the sidelines screamed again.

Lin Jie looked at the ball that was slapped out of bounds, feeling a bit dejected: “I thought this ball would definitely go in.”

Liu Menglong smiled slightly: “Try a bit harder, you were almost there.”

Actually, Liu Menglong was also quite surprised. If it were the old him, he would have been easily feinted by Lin Jie. He was able to block the shot relatively easily thanks to his 135 points of super speed. However, this also confirmed Lin Jie's improvement in basketball. Looking at this girl with average academic performance, tall stature, and good basketball skills, Liu Menglong's mind was turning. Should he consider training Lin Jie in basketball?

Lin Jie is only fourteen years old. At this age, her basketball talent is unmatched by any other basketball prodigy Liu Menglong knows. Even the girl who joined the Chinese professional women's basketball league a few years ago, who was his former classmate, was far behind Lin Jie at fourteen.

After playing for about ten minutes, Lin Jie was exhausted and was temporarily substituted out. Liu Menglong also found an excuse to be replaced by others. He then paid out of pocket to have two people buy two boxes of drinks. Amidst the thanks of all the students, he took two cans of cool tea and walked to Lin Jie, handing her one: “Have you ever thought about pursuing a career in basketball?”

“Thank you, Mr. Liu.” After drinking some cool tea, Lin Jie sighed contentedly: “I haven’t thought that far. Playing basketball is just a hobby for me. If I were to turn it into a career, I don’t know if I could handle the atmosphere and environment of professional basketball.”

Liu Menglong smiled faintly: “I have a female classmate who is now a professional basketball player in China, and even has the potential to join the national team. But when she was fourteen, she could only dribble and pass. Your skills, she basically didn’t have.”

“Oh?” Lin Jie became interested: “What’s Mr. Liu’s classmate’s name?”

“A pretty common name.” Liu Menglong smiled slightly: “To give my old classmate some face, I won’t say it.”

“Ha ha, if you don’t want to say it, that’s fine. I’ll give Mr. Liu’s classmate some face.” Lin Jie giggled.

A ladybug flew to her head and was flicked away by Liu Menglong. He then said seriously: “This student, don’t laugh anymore, it attracts bugs.”

“Annoying! You’re the one who attracts bugs!” Lin Jie huffed, gulped down the entire can of cool tea, and held the empty can, saying: “Does Mr. Liu think I can join the national team in the future?”

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